Chaise Miroir
Mini-installation | painting and bronze sculpture
In Chaise Miroir, the chair — one of the central elements in Lavinia Góes’s artistic research — breaks free from the limits of the canvas and materializes in space. The work consists of a small painting, where forms suggest the presence of vessels, and a miniature bronze sculpture that renders them as a tangible, three-dimensional object. Color, along with the chair and the vessels, forms the third pillar of the artist’s visual vocabulary. Created using natural vegetal pigments from Brazil — in this case, extracted from the faveira plant — and French earths, the paint highlights her dual cultural identity and celebrates the alchemy of ancestral knowledge.
This transition from the pictorial plane to the tangible object suggests a play between reflection and presence: what was once image now becomes body. The chair, here, is a bridge between memory and matter, thought and touch. By merging the languages of painting and sculpture, Lavinia offers an expanded experience of looking — an invitation to inhabit the space between figure and form as a contemporary scene.
Chaise Miroir
Mini-installation | painting and bronze sculpture
In Chaise Miroir, the chair — one of the central elements in Lavinia Góes’s artistic research — breaks free from the limits of the canvas and materializes in space. The work consists of a small painting, where forms suggest the presence of vessels, and a miniature bronze sculpture that renders them as a tangible, three-dimensional object. Color, along with the chair and the vessels, forms the third pillar of the artist’s visual vocabulary. Created using natural vegetal pigments from Brazil — in this case, extracted from the faveira plant — and French earths, the paint highlights her dual cultural identity and celebrates the alchemy of ancestral knowledge.
This transition from the pictorial plane to the tangible object suggests a play between reflection and presence: what was once image now becomes body. The chair, here, is a bridge between memory and matter, thought and touch. By merging the languages of painting and sculpture, Lavinia offers an expanded experience of looking — an invitation to inhabit the space between figure and form as a contemporary scene.
